Definition of Paratactical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paratactical

parasympathomimetics
parasympathotonia
parasymplesite
parasynapsis
parasynovitis
parasyntheses
parasynthesis
parasynthetic
parasyphilis
parasyphilitic
parasyphilosis
parasystole
parasystolic beat
paratacamite
paratactic
paratactical (current term)
paratactically
parataxes
parataxia
parataxic
parataxis
paratellurite
paratenesis
paratenic host
paratenon
paraterminal
paraterminal body
paraterminal gyrus
paratext
paratexts

Literary usage of Paratactical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Selected letters of Cicero by Marcus Tullius Cicero (1900)
"... admit the paratactical arrangement more freely than formal Latin does. This fact is evident (1) in the use of coordination rather than subordination ..."

2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"I) Equally noteworthy is the use by the speakers of asyndeton and of short, co-ordinate sentences and paratactical expressions. ..."

3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"Such are the paratactical arrangement of sentences, in preference to hypo- taxis, which where it appears is of the simplest form, merely indicated by ..."

4. Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah by Franz Delitzsch, Samuel Rolles Driver (1892)
"This paratactical construction is also found in the case of other conjunctions, as in chap. xii. 1, lxv. 12. They are called upon to decide and answer as to ..."

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